New proposal for Ubuntu Backporters Team Charter
Alex Murray
alex.murray at canonical.com
Wed Jan 25 05:21:34 UTC 2023
Hi Ubuntu Backporters Team,
The Tech Board is hoping to progress the ratification of a charter for
the Ubuntu Backporters Team as discussed previously on a number of
occasions. My understanding is that these previous discussions between
the Backporters Team and the Tech Board have not been able to reach a
consensus on both the level of detail and the requirements that would be
stipulated in the Charter.
The previous drafts at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports/Charter
seemed to contain a mix of both high level statements/directions for the
team as well as lower-level policies for the operation of the team. I
notice that now most of these lower-level details have moved into
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports/Policies but there is still no
higher level Charter outlining the purpose and guiding principles for
the team.
As such I propose the following as a starting point, which is based on
the previous proposal from rbasak[1] but which tries to reduce any
potential burdens placed on the team by such an overall Charter:
* Establish and manage an effective process to handle backport
requests based solely on their technical merit.
* Maintain the backports pocket based on this process, with an aim to
ensure all requests are responded to in a reasonable amount of time.
* Maintain quality in the backports pocket, where the definition of
quality is driven by the team, but decided by consensus within the
wider Ubuntu developer community.
* Handle process reform and membership management internally, ensuring
that any responsibility can be carried by any contributor who
demonstrates the required capacity and competence.
I hope this can serve as a basis to reach a consensus that is amendable
to both the Backporters Team and Technical Board.
I welcome any feedback from all involved (please note I am not
subscribed to the ubuntu-backports list so please CC me directly on
responses).
Thanks,
Alex
[1]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-backports/2022-February/022687.html
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